Nintendo Direct Broadcast Confirmed for 13th November

Nintendo of Europe has now confirmed its own regional version of this Nintendo Direct at the times indicated below, repeating the wording on a 3DS focus while inviting viewers to "join Mr Shibata". As has been the case in the past, it looks like at least a segment of the broadcast will be region-specific.

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We're rather used to regular Nintendo Direct broadcasts here on Nintendo Life — they can often appear on a monthly basis — so the wait for a broadcast catered to a Western audience was starting to feel a little longer than normal. The company is gearing up to give us our fix, however, with Nintendo of America confirming a new Nintendo Direct broadcast on Wednesday 13th November.

The announcement press release states that the focus will be "new details and information about previously announced Nintendo 3DS software launching through early 2014", though previous broadcasts have deviated from their stated agendas. It's all happening at 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 4pm UK time / 5pm European Central time. Nintendo of Europe is yet to make a similar announcement at the time of writing.

As always we'll be providing extensive live and post-broadcast coverage right here on Nintendo Life; we expect The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds to feature prominently, as well as titles such as Mario Party: Island Tour. What do you hope to see in the broadcast, and how keen are you for some Wii U coverage to sneak into the presentation? Let us know below.

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yeah I saw that and edited my post, even though on their facebook page they show the Wii u in the picture as well so we may hear a little bit of Wii u news as usually if it is only one system, they tend to only show the system they are talking about....so I am hoping there will be Wii U news.

Sorta disappointed that its focused on 3DS. But who knows, they might announce a Wii U Direct soon afterwards. Or even show off a new Wii U game at the end like how they showed the new Kirby 3DS game at the end of last month's Wii U focused direct.

I hope they show plenty of footage on Mario Party: Island Tour and don't ignore Super Mario 3D World, but I would also like to see Kirby 3DS too. Maybe Mario Golf: World Tour could get a mention? That game actually looked pretty far in development last time we saw it.

Is it odd that I'm really excited for an RPG that's effectively an unproven new IP (regardless of its SquareEnix-ness or how traditional it looks), whereas I'm not that fussed about the new Zelda? Not that I'll have much time to play either for the next few months

I want release dates for Bravely Default, Professor Layton & Azran Legacy, Yoshi's New Island. Some news about the new Mario Golf game & Kirby game. I'm more focused on 3DS news because I don't have a Wii U yet.

I'm with everyone else... At the very least this should be a 3DS/Wii U direct. Clearly the 3DS doesn't need more attention than the Wii U since both hardware and software are selling extremely well... I really don't understand Nintendo.

I would really like some news about Kirby 3DS, Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy release date in NA, a new trailer for P. Layton Vs. Ace Attorney. And the final confirmation of MiiVerse on 3DS and Unified Accounts for Wii U and 3DS.

And if they'd show some footage for SSB For 3DS and a launch window, it would be awesome!!

And on the dreams side, a new 3DS Metroid or an ORIGINAL Star Fox would be awesome!!

I might ignore this broadcast because it will probably just be another 20 minutes of Nintendo digging a massive Wii U shaped hole with their 3DS shovels and then beating the Wii U to death with amazing 3DS software.

It's depressing to see (reminds me of the GBA vs Gamecube) and will probably be capped off with a new Wii U game from a brilliant dev. team that nobody has asked for (like Stunt Race FX) or all the Wii U games we have asked for but coming as 3DS games.

The Wii U does need more help obviously, but Ill cut them some slack on this one. My kids just made up their holiday lists and there aren't any 3DS games on it. They are looking forward to Yoshi and the Kirby game w/o a name - I'm guessing a name tomorrow - but that's about it.

Maybe we'll get a date for SSB

Nintendo is really bad at releasing news i advance so if they want to give out some info for the winter/spring - even on the 3DS - I'm all for it.

In Dec. I want a winter/spring Wii U ND w/ Bayonetta 2, X, MK8, Brawl, and Yoshi's Yarn Planet for all the whiners hating on Party, Fit and Sports Club.

Awesome! I'd been wondering for a while when the next Nintendo Direct was going to happen. I always look forward to the funnies that only Nintendo can bring. Hope Iwata holds bananas or something else haha. Any game info is a bonus really haha. Just under 24 hours left by my calculations!

I have a feeling we're not going to see any extensive information regarding the Wii U on a Nintendo Direct until January, MAYBE December. I'd like to be wrong, it just feels like they are building up anticipation to hopefully blow our minds with some announcements. It does feel dumb though that they aren't showing anything Wii U tomorrow. I think I'm in denial, because I want to believe they're saying it's a 3DS direct just to throw us off. -_-

I haven't seen anyone say it, but I feel like they're gonna throw in the release of the Pokemon X/Y soundtrack...because apparently it releases tomorrow in Japan, so perhaps it will release here as well. I can't wait to get a hold of some more video game music.

kind of irrelevant but when are street fighter x tekken and tekken x street fighter out, they were my most wanted when wii u games were announced pre release, i thought they were launch window and the disappeared of the face of the world

Prof. Layton vs. Ace Attorney? One of the games I'm looking forward to since the first announcement, even though at first I couldn't believe it were true.
Time Travelers translated?
Senran Kagura release date, without crawling back from physical release in PAL regions?
Dementium 3?
WarioWare Twisted on virtual console worldwide?
Okay it's getting a bit too unlikely...

I just hope they don't show any more of a link between worlds I'm so excited for it and don't want to see any more and ruin it for myself only over a week to go now! But they can confirm Majora's Mask 3D

No no no. Why focus on 3DS? Yes of course Wii U content would be there but on this moment Wii U needs to be the entire focus on this Nintendo Direct and... and EVERYTHING if they want to sell properly this holiday, Gosh!! >

@MeowGravy Wii U just needs the ones from the last one to actually be available. Announcing even more stuff (Which will probably be delayed anyway) is just annoying. Wish they went back to just announcing stuff when it was a week away or so.

If I could have put money on a Direct coming out this week I would have, it seemed inevitable given the approaching console launches. But I never would have expected 3DS to take the spotlight for it, poor little WiiU!

I've seen enough 3D World and I refuse to watch anything else until the game releases so I hope they don't show anything more there. If anything, I'm more interested on details for Mario Party: Island Tour, since that game comes out next Friday and we still don't know much about it. You know what...here's my list of what I want to see:

-Mario Party: Island Tour-Zelda: Link Between Worlds (I imagine that will be featured)-Kirby 3DS-Yoshi's New Island (still know only minimal information about this title)-Mario Golf: World Tour (seriously, this game practically dropped off the radar...)-MIIVERSE FOR 3DS. I NEED to see this announcement!-A new announcement?-Mario Kart 8 (even though it's looking it will be 3DS centered, they typically discuss a thing or two about the other console, and Mario Kart 8 is coming in early 2014, so...)

Geez man, I'm desperately hoping for some sort of surprise. Or Smash Bros. news, because other than that, there isn't THAT much to say about the upcoming 3DS games, except for Kirby and maybe Yoshi's island.

LoZ: LBWProfessor Layton & The Azran LegacyMAYBE PLvAAMario Party: Island TourBravely DefaultA couple of new announcements for next yearA sizzle reel of upcoming 3DSWare games3DS System Update infoAnd maybe, maybe, GBA VC for Wii U as a end of Direct surprise (I mean really, how many Directs haven't had a surprise at the end?)

Anyway, my point is that I really only expect info on announced 3DS games (gee, I wonder why?) and then update info and maybe a surprise at the end. 35 minutes, tops.

Hopefully news about 3DS Miiverse, unified account system and of course gameplay video and more information about Kirby and Yoshi's Island.

As a special surprise Nintendo will announce Virtual Boy for 3DS Virtual Console. You can either play it with the red&black original eye destroying colours, or optionally with new colors that are more towards gameboy colouring. In the settings colours settings can be changed.